| State Of The Union: President Calls For Record Budget | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1744 |
| Catalog #: | 426314 | |
| Clip Number: | 426314-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-005-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:26:30 - 00:28:57 | |
| Location: | Washington DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Audience GOVERNMENT: Address to Congress, State of the Union LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) PHOTOGRAPHY: Equipment POLITICS: United States | |
| Description: | Reporting to Congress in his "State of the Union" message, President Johnson calls for a record budget of $112.8 billion dollars as he predicts another peak year for the gross national product. He promises to wage the war in Vietnam to victory while at the same time pushing forward his "Great Society" program at home. Washington DC Capitol Building all lit up at night. President Lyndon Baines Johnson State of the Union message, "Tonight the cup of peril is full in Vietnam. That conflict is not an isolated episode, but another great event in the policy that we have followed with strong consistency since World War II. ... History is on the side of freedom and is on the side of societies shaped from the genius of each people. History does not favor a single system or belief - unless force is used to make it so. That is why it has been necessary for us to defend this basic principle of our policy, to defend it in Berlin, in Korea, in Cuba - and tonight in Vietnam." MS - Voice Of America Studio 10 - On top of an microphone a little sign is attached; "La Voz De Los Estados Unidos De America." MS - Technicians sitting at a audio control panel. "Bangkok" - "Tokyo" - "London" - "Moscow". MS - A technician looking over or keeping watch over a row of Steenbecks. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, "We will stay because in Asia and around the world are countries whose independence rests, in large measure, on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Vietnam would weaken that confidence, would undermine the independence of many lands, and would whet the appetite of aggression. We would have to fight in one land, and then we would have to fight in another - or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists. And we do not intend to abandon Asia to conquest." (Applause) Voice over: The President asks for a record budget - One hundred and twelve billion, eight hundred million dollars. He hopes to carry out most of his great societies plans. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, "Because of Vietnam we cannot do all that we should, or all that we would like to do. We will ruthlessly attack waste and inefficiency. We will make sure that every dollar is spent with the thrift and with the commonsense which recognizes how hard the taxpayer worked in order to earn it." | |
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